Dance and movement teacher Dawn Morgan was preparing to use her new handmade yurt for the first of a busy programme of summer of festivals.

She had stacked the timber frame outside her home, ready for a friend to pick up in a van.

She nipped out at 2pm, knowing her friend would be there any moment, only to receive a phone call from him 15 minutes later asking; “Where is the yurt?”

Dawn Morgan from Stroud who is appealing for the return of her yurt. Picture by Gavin Crilly Date 250717 by Gavin Crilly Photography, contact for more information mob: 07810638169 web: www.pressphotographergloucestershire.co.uk www.gavincrillyfilmandphotography.com email: gavincrilly@gmail.com

Dawn said she was staggered. Barely ten minutes earlier the heavy oak frame had been stacked on the pavement.

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“I can’t lift it on my own. The door has an oak frame with an ash door and for some details on each piece of the frame with Roman numerals carved in the wood. I had just linseeded it ready for the summer.

“One neighbour told me she did see a man with silver hair tied in a pony tail with a grey estate car pull up, but didn’t think anything of it.

“I can’t really believe it. The frame cost between £2,500 and £3,000. I’m still in shock.”

Gloucestershire police said that they were investigating the theft of the

a wooden frame for a yurt from the pavement outside a property in Woodside, Stroud.